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...as the best of Archie’s education. Assuredly it did not attract him; assuredly it rather rebutted and depressed. Yet it was still present, unobserved ... ...e’s” and “quo’ she’s,” her voice sinking into a whisper over the supernatural or the horrific; until she would suddenly spring up in affected surprise... ...akfasts, for they knew that Dand must have guided them right, and the rogues could be but little ahead, hot foot for Edinburgh by the way of the Pentl... ... a child. Hastily she did up the massive and shining coils, hast- ily donned a wrapper, and with the rushlight in her hand, stole into the hall. Below...

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... as the girls were going to separate in preparation for the regular four o’clock dinner, the hero of this inimitable charade walked in again. Harriet ... ...ular kindness last September twelvemonth in writing that note, at twelve o’clock at night, on purpose to assure me that there was no scarlet fever at ... ...t appropriated nothing. “Think of me to-morrow, my dear Emma, about four o’clock,” was Mrs. Weston’s parting injunction; spoken with some anxiety, and... ...ting injunction; spoken with some anxiety, and meant only for her. “Four o’clock!—depend upon it he will be here by three,” was Mr. Weston’s quick ame... ...ston’s faithful pupil did not forget either at ten, or eleven, or twelve o’clock, that she was to think of her at four. “My dear, dear anxious friend,... ...s, going again and again into his room, to be sure that all is right.” The clock struck twelve as she passed through the hall. “’Tis twelve; I shall n... ...cumstance to strike him deeply. A man who had been in motion since eight o’clock in the morn- ing, and might now have been still, who had been long ta... ...d you can be always with me. You are always with me.” “Dating from three o’clock yesterday. My perpetual influ- ence could not begin earlier, or you w... ...arlier, or you would not have been so much out of humour before.” “Three o’clock yesterday! That is your date. I thought I had seen you first in Febru...

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... for Falk had taken away the Diana at half-past five, and it was now two o’clock. Schomberg wished me to observe that neither of these men would spend...

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...so its manner of working. Their equipment was as inferior to the Strasburg clock, but that is the only differ ence—there is no frontier. Y.M. It look... ...ld not see it! She so loved the snow. The snow continued to fall. At six o’clock the hearse drew up to the door to bear away its pathetic burden. As t... ...pany of Susy and Langdon. DECEMBER 26TH. The dog came to see me at eight o’clock this morning. He was very affectionate, poor or phan! My room will b... ...ears and a half ago; and where mine will stand after a little time. FIVE O’CLOCK.—It is all over. WHEN C LARA WENT AWAY two weeks ago to live in Eur... ...to burst upon Carson City from the Sierra Nevadas every afternoon at two o’clock and try to blow the town away. The third picture, as you easily perce... ...reet were there by his will. It is so strange, so unrealizable. At three o’clock the carriages were still streaming by in single file. At three five a... ...as been creeping out well to the rear of the face west of it—and at five o’clock has as sumed a shape that has rather a poor and rude semblance of a ... ... Virgin’s front, the most stupendous dial I am acquainted with, the oldest clock in the world by a couple of million years. I suppose I should not hav... ...ble as a face, which was evidence that the picture was taken before four o’clock in the afternoon, and also evidence that all the photographers have p...

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...of the North go forth as freemen into the humming, lamplit city. At five o’clock you may see the last of us hiving from the college gates, in the glar... ..., not alone with the deliberate series of the seasons, but with man-kind’s clocks and hour-long measurement of time. And thus there was no leisure for... ...es the process as well as the result, the works as well as the dial of the clock. Withal he has his hours of inspi- ration. Apt words come to him as i... ...d Bold Bob Bowsprit) with the red curtain, pipes, spittoons, and eight-day clock; and there again is that impressive dungeon with the chains, which wa... ...f somewhat swollen passion, cuts the knot by the derangement of the hero’s clock. Such personages and incidents belong to the novel of character; they...

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... with us After the tree is decorated we dress ourselves for mass. At ten o’clock we walk down the street to St. Michael’s church to attend mass. When ... ... was supposed to meet my dad at a store called Grandpa Tony’s, at twelve o’clock. I found someone sober enough to drive and talked him into driving me... ...and talked him into driving me to Grandpa Tony’s. I met my dad at twelve o’clock and he took me home. I’m not sure if he knew I was drunk because he d... ...orner near the golf course and take a look at the time. It is now twelve o’clock on the nose. I flick on the blinker, turn onto Greenfield Road and ha...

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... as soon as we got out of the creek, and arriv’d there about eight or nine o’clock on the Sunday morn ing, and landed at the Market street wharf. I h... ... breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint in the afternoon about six o’clock, and another when he had done his day’s work. I thought it a detest... ...he whole street clean, and I would give her a shil ling; this was at nine o’clock; at 12 she came for the shil ling. From the slowness I saw at firs... ...ng; for, in walking thro’ the Strand and Fleet street one morning at seven o’clock, I observ’d there was not one shop open, tho’ it had been daylight ... ...ere near our port, but a thick fog hid the land from our sight. About nine o’clock the fog began to rise, and seem’d to be lifted up from the water li...

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...e of progress may be compared more justly to the hand upon the dial of the clock, which continues to advance as it indicates, than to the stationary m... ...h a priest called Gilles and a woman of the name of Isabeau. It was nine o’clock, a mighty late hour for the period, and evi- dently a fine summer’s n... ...cion it was Dom Nicolas, the Picardy monk) hurried them away. It was ten o’clock when they mounted the ladder; it was about midnight before T abary be... ...my window, as I was writing of this very line, and cried, `Past one of the clock, and a cold, frosty, windy morn- ing.’” Such passages are not to be m... ...s,” says he, “I could not forbear carrying it in my hand and seeing what o’clock it was an hundred times.” T o go to Vauxhall, he says, and “to hear t...

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...same as well. In some cases we didn’t take a nap, so around two or three o’clock it was playtime. We would go outside to play all kinds of Indian game... ... into the smaller, locally-owned shops that edge the square. As the Albert Clock chimes five, a swarm of people appears, hastily making their way towa... ...mers onto the pavements, where they can catch the last bus home. By four o’clock, the city is cat- napping, only to awake early and begin the cycle ag...

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...mberlain as a fox by Francis Carruthers Gould. At twenty minutes to five o’clock on a summer afternoon in 1904, the room is empty. Presently the outer... ...I hope you slept well. NORA. Did anything wake yup with a thump at three o’clock? I thought the house was falling. But then I’m a very light sleeper. ...

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... of death, the English either fire or candle in their houses after eight o’clock; whether was this to prevent their nocturnal meetings, or only to try... ...tion; a lord, powdered in the tip of the mode, who knows exactly at what o’clock the king rises and goes to bed, and who gives himself airs of gran- d... ... one another. We must, says he, make an experiment to see whether the same clock will go faster on the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; w... ...res the soul to be virtuous, whatever substance it may be made of. It is a clock which is given us to regulate, but the artist has not told us of what...

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...own. Thither he always walked, starting punctually from the bank at four o’clock, and from thence he always walked in the morning, reaching the bank p...

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...had so transpired that during the very second class of the day, the lecturer (teacher), suspending the lesson, announced that it was going to be 11 o’clock in a while; therefore , the class will stand up and observe two-minute silence to pay homage to the Father of the Nation. By this time, the turn to the left for entering the bazaar had been reached, the Professor stopp...

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...had so transpired that during the very second class of the day, the lecturer (teacher), suspending the lesson, announced that it was going to be 11 o’clock in a while; therefore , the class will stand up and observe two-minute silence to pay homage to the Father of the Nation. By this time, the turn to the left for entering the bazaar had been reached, the Professor stopp...

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..._____ 28 THE ARGUMENT ___ 28 PARAPSYCHOLOGY 28 NAIL ON NAIL ______ 28 VIGILANCE ________ 28 ORDER ____________ 28 PATOMIME ________ 28 CUCKOO CLOCK (I) _ 29 CUCKOO CLOCK (II) 29 AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS ______________ 29 APHORISM _________ 29 DISGUST ___________ 29 CLASSIC ___________ 29 HEROISM __________ 29 BAGATELLE _______ 29 PRODUCER ________ 30 INTRODUCT...